The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD) hasn’t been updating its social media pages or its YouTube channel. It has been four months since the last board meeting live stream. Plus, it hasn’t issued a public-facing press release on its website in nearly two years.
For reference, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is the governing body that oversees the land of Walt Disney World Resort.
Meeting Livestreams and Socials
Each month, the CFTOD would livestream its monthly board meetings on YouTube, but that hasn’t been the case for most of 2026. Looking at the CFTOD’s YouTube channel, the last livestreamed meeting was on February 27, 2026. Even beyond the live streams, they haven’t uploaded a board meeting video since December 2025.
At the time of writing, the CFTOD’s website still indicates that the Board of Supervisors meetings are livestreamed and recorded on YouTube. The site also does not list any upcoming events, including this month’s meeting on June 26, 2026.
On top of not updating YouTube, the group has also stopped updating all of its public-facing social media platforms. This drastically reduces the transparency between them and the general public. CFTOD hasn’t posted on Facebook or Instagram since April 1, 2024, for example, and has never posted on its LinkedIn page.
As a reminder, the former Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) turned into the CFOTD following the takeover of the District by Governor Ron DeSantis in 2023. Prior to that, the RCID had been self-governing since 1967.
Even a cursory glance at the publicly available information from this year’s meetings is concerning. Minutes are still not available from the May 29 meeting, though it appears from the May 2025 minutes that it takes a full month for those to be posted. For example, the May 23, 2025 minutes were posted June 24, 2025 and the April 24, 2026 minutes were not posted until May 29, 2026.
Looking through the last year of minutes, the way they are publicly written out has also changed drastically. Through May 2025, the minutes seemed to be a full transcript of the meeting events. Since then, however, they are a summarized, agenda minutes version of events. Here are screenshots below to show what we mean:
April 2026:
April 2025:
Without the full transcripts readily available and/or videos to document them, the public no longer has access to the full happenings of the meetings. The public now only knows whether or not something passed or was entered into the record, not the conversations around them.
According to Florida’s Sunshine Law, which mandates how state, county, and municipal boards or commissions’ meetings function, these apparent changes are well within the law. The law indicates that minutes do not have to be verbatim transcripts, nor do they have to be recorded. Even so, the drastic change in meeting availability is startling.
At the time of writing, the CFTOD has not issued a press release or public statement about the reduced availability of board meeting information. In fact, its last press release on the website was issued in June 2024. The office used to issue press releases regularly and hasn’t in nearly two full years.
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